america s most famou presidential statements. today, wow they are going to arrest me. can t believe this i happening. president trump, will you come speak to us the ex president surrenders he is arrested but. fingerprinted. criminally charged with 34 felonies in a manhattan courthouse. these are felony crimes i new york state no matter who you are. prosecutors say he ran a criminal scheme to conceal damaging information, unlawful activity from american voter before the 2016 election former president trump plead not guilty he is frustrated. he is upset. tonight the substance of the case. the people versus donald trump joy reid, already melbourne, alex wagner stephanie bowl all here for msnbc special coverage of the first ever criminal indictment of a forme president of the united states good evening and thank you for being with us here tonight i am rachel maddow here at msnbc headquarters in new york along with lawrence o donnel and joy reid, and nicole wallace
ask not what your country ca do for you mr. gorbachev teared down this wall states criminal indictment of former president of the united states good evening and thank you for being with us here tonight i am rachel maddow here at msnbc headquarters in new york along with lawrence o donnel and joy reid, and nicole wallace, and chris hayes we are going to be joined by more of our closest colleagues over the course of this evenin tonight, as part of the specia coverage we know that you have ever choice in the world tonight as to where to get your news abou this historic event. that makes us all the more grateful that you are here together with us tonight. so, here is how it works just got the transcripts we know exactly how it went. the clerk. calendar number one, indictmen 71543 of 2023, people of the state of new york versus donal j trump. appearances. prosecutor, christophe conwright for the people, your honor. and judge, with me are kathryn mccaw, matthew cullen julio, steve
charges like this often have cascading effects and as you mentioned, the president s facing at least three other potential criminal investigations into his conduct right now. whichever way these charges go and hopefully we ll be privy to all of them in the next 15 minutes or so, how might this strengthen or weaken the former president s hand in those other key cases? i think that s a great question on the politics side of things. not on the legal side of things. you know, i don t think any of these district attorneys or the special counsel are interacting saying you go first, no, you go first, or i m ready to go. that s not how it works behind the scenes. but it is the case that this went first and it may be the thinnest gruel of them all in the end. by going first does it paint others with this, you know, an aura of it s all political and the answer is yes from the former president, he s going to use it to say it fits with the entire narrative of russia russia russia, and
up, ted cruz is on fox defending trump by saying the opposite. there s no person on planet earth that believes donald trump has been sell celebate all of his life. that s not news. we have a lot on donald trump s criminal hush money trial. what a week it has been. stormy daniels wrapping up testimony with a contentious and bizarre cross-examination from trump s legal term. we ll get expert legal analysis on that and what we can expect in court today because it s not over yet. plus, we have reaction from capitol hill to president biden s threat to withhold some weapons shipments to israel over its possible invasion of rafah. more republicans are krilt criticizing the president and he s facing backlash from democrats. and kevin mccarthy is having a hard time coping with the fact that mike johnson did something he could not. we ll show you mccarthy s dig at his successor. it seems, i don t know, not okay, will legal, good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it s frida
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